Embroidered fabric.



L. SCHWARTZ.

EMBROIDERED FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, I915- 1 1 85 ,837 Patented June 6, 1916.

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EMBROIDERED FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed April 19, 1915. Serial No. 22,301.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs SCHWARTZ, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Embroidered Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionr Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a fabric having united sections, the connecting seam being concealed by embroidery incorporated in a general ornamental design; and to provide a seamed fabric with ornamentation embodying a continuous solid portion covering said seam.

Drawings.Figure 1 is a face view of a fragment of fabric constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, a portion of said fabric being shown in an unfinished condition; Fig. 2 is a view showing the reverse face of the fragment illustrated in Fig. 1.

Descriptz'0n.The fabric herein described is peculiarly adapted to supply a demand for material particularly employed in making womens skirts. Where fabric of the necessary width is employed, it is found that the added cost of the wider materials is a serious disadvantage and considerably exceeds in price the same area of cloth when formed by joining two or more pieces of a narrower width. Fabric constructed in accordance with the present invention is composed of a full-width 7 of relatively narrow weave, and a fragment 8 of cloth of the same weave. In both color and weave design the full-width 7 and the fragment 8 are identical. The full-width 7 is provided at each edge with selvages 9. One edge only of the fragment 8 is usually provided with the selvage 9. The selvaged edge of the fragment 8 and one of the selvaged edges of the full-width 7 are united by a line of flat-seam stitching 10. The raw edge of the fragment 8 is ornamented or out to the scalloping edge 11, substantially as shown in the drawings. The united full-width 7 and fragment 8 is then embroidered. The design of the embroidery has incorporated therein, on all occasions, a continuous, un-

broken pattern formed by covering stitches to overlie and completely conceal, both at the front and back of the completed fabric, the seam formed by the stitching 10. The pattern usually incorporates a series of flower designs 12 disposed in spaced relation. The flowers 12 are usually connected by sections of a band design 13. To relieve the design, and to avoid the suggestion of the covered seam which might be imparted by the band 13 alone, a field of laterally-extended surface of stitching, such as 14, is employed.

The design having incorporated therein the band 13 is extended over the surface of the fragment 8, and is provided with a series of finishing edge stitching 15; which covers the raw edge of scalloped edge 11. The surface of the fragment 8 is otherwise embellished. The material used in the embellishment of the fragment 8 is of the same character as that employed in forming the covering stitching embodying the flower design 12, the band design 13, and the surface stitching 14.

It will be seen that the stitching of the flower design 12 and the band design 13 is carried through to the under or reverse side of the united full-width 7 and fragment 8, so that the seam and the stitching 10 thereof are concealed on this surface of the completed fabric.

Claim:

A fabric comprising an elongated full width woven piece having selvage edges; and a narrow section of similar length having selvage on one edge only, said narrow section being embroidered and shaped to E. F. MURDOCK, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

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